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LAWCHA labor history award winners for 2016

James Green, professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has won LAWCHA’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History.

“Professor Green has opened new avenues of scholarly inquiry and pioneered new ways to communicate historical narratives to broad audiences,” notes the award citation. Green has provided “models for other labor historians to follow,” including his role in documentaries of working-class history such as “The Mine Wars,” aired nationally this year in PBS’s distinguished “American Experience” series.

“As an activist, Jim has been part of nearly every struggle for social justice over the past five decades,” writes LAWCHA president Jim Gregory, adding that Green is a founding member of LAWCHA and was its president in 2003 when he helped launch Labor.

– Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation – Stephen C. Beda, “Landscapes of Solidarity: Timber Workers and the Making of Place in the Pacific Northwest, 1900-1964” (University of Washington, 2014)

The prize for the best Labor article went to Sarah F. Rose and Joshua A. T. Salzmann, “Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964-2007” (11:1- Spring, 2014)